Original Marathi from the Tukaram Gatha
मराठी मूळ
दिनदिन शंका वाटे । आयुष्य नेणवतां गाढें ॥1॥
कैसीं भुललीं बापुडीं । दंबविषयांचे सांकडीं ॥ध्रु.॥
विसरला मरण। त्याची नाहीं आठवण ॥2॥
देखत देखत पाहीं । तुका ह्मणे आठव नाहीं ॥3॥
माझें मज आतां न देखें निरसतां । ह्मणऊन आधार केला । संसाराची आस सांडुनि लौकिक ।
जीव भाव तुज दिला । नव्हतीं माझीं कोणी मी कवणांचा । अर्थ मोहो सांडवला ।
Tukaram Gatha (Marathi Wikisource)
English Translation
Day by day doubt grows; one does not know how swiftly life slips away. How deluded are these poor souls, hemmed in by the snare of pride and sense pleasures. They have forgotten death; its memory never visits them. Says Tuka, they watch others die right before their eyes and still take no heed. Now I cannot save myself by my own discernment, so I have taken Your support. Abandoning worldly hopes and social standing, I have given You my very life and love. No one was ever truly mine, nor I theirs; the delusion of attachment has been dispelled.
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Appeals and Exhortations
Direct calls to action: wake up, seek God, do not waste this human birth.
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